Theodore Lehre is a Doctoral Candidate in the English Department at Boston College. Previously, they have received a BA in English Literature from UC Berkeley and an AA from Santa Rosa Junior College. Theodore has language proficiency in Irish and Spanish, and has passed their general field exams with distinction: 1880-1920 British and Irish Literature (minor) and Motherhood and Queerness in 20th Century Irish Literature (major). They are currently working on a dissertation on queer and alternative motherhoods in 20th century Irish literature.
As an instructor, they have designed and taught courses in writing, literature core, and queer Irish literature at Boston College, and courses in academic writing and Irish literature at La Roche University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Lehre has presented digital humanities projects and papers on constitutional motherhood at the Regional American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) in Boston and the National ACIS in Ireland, and they intend to present a paper entitled “Cathleen Ni Houlihan and the Death Drive” at the National ACIS in Georgia in February 2025.
Their digital humanities work concentrates on motherhood, maternity and pregnancy in global constitutions, using an open-access ArcGIS StoryMap to document all 110 countries and constitutions that explicitly mention mothers. This open-access resource can be found and explored here.
